ICA

Simon Welsh

26 Jan - 01 Feb 2015

SIMON WELSH
fig-2, Week 4/50
26 January - 1 February 2015

fig-2 is hosting a week of encounters with poet, environmental activist and public speaker Simon Welsh, who will be delivering a series of forty–two minute lectures, starting on Monday at 7pm; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 5pm. Welsh’s lectures incorporate his world view on the interconnecting forces that are at play in humanity today, embarking upon margins of new spirituality and cultural mythology. fig-2 will host a poetry cafe on Thursday evening between 6:30 – 8:30pm where Welsh delivers immediate poems for the individual members of the audience responding to their set of choices. Welsh’s project will conclude with fifteen minute long poetic portrait sessions held on Saturday and Sunday between 2 and 6pm. Please book your place for the poetic portrait sessions by emailing info@fig2.co.uk.

fig-2 opens each Monday 6 – 8 pm, and continues from Tue – Sun 11 am – 6 pm. fig-2 is open late on Thursdays until 9 pm to coincide with the ICA late openings. fig-2, ICA Studio, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. As the ICA is closed on Mondays, to reach the Studio please use the ramp entrance to the Studio from Carlton House Terrace, at the top of the Duke of York Steps. For more information visit fig2.co.uk

fig-2 at the ICA in association with Outset